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If you design your E-book pages,
try to focus on being consistent and informative. Make it easy
for your readers to navigate trough your book pages, or they will
skip your material. Put navigation links on every book page.
Do not use too many colors or fancy
buttons. Or have you ever seen newspapers or magazines with orange
text on a yellow background?
There’s no need to revolutionize the
way publishing is done with your E-book.
Check and re-check to see if all
the hyperlinks or forms work, and if all the images show up correctly.
Many people forget to link the images or banners to the home directory.
Try to limit the use of images, because
they take up a lot of space, and your E-book should not be too
large to download. Put your ad banners (if you use any) at the
bottom of your book pages. Do this to not distract your readers.
Then you have to create an opening
page. This page shows up first when your E-book gets clicked on.
Be sure to place your E-book title
in it, and make an index of all the different pages or chapters.
Name this page "readmefirst.htm" so that you know which page you
have to use to start.
Then you’re ready to compress all
your HTML-pages and images into an E-book format, using your E-book
formatting software.
If you want to create your E-book
in .pdf format, you can do it for FREE at the Adobe web site:
http://cpdf1.adobe.com/index.pl?BP=IE
(Their service lets you convert a
wide variety of documents into Adobe PDF files that anyone can
view using the free, widely distributed Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
To reduce the size of your E-book,
compress it into a ..zip file. Click below to get the software
to do it, if you don't have WinZip already installed on your PC.
-It's free to download at: http://www.winzip.com
The last step is to upload the E-book.zip
file to your web server via FTP, and create a great sales or download
page where your web site visitors can obtain a copy.
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